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  <div class="section" id="introduction">
<span id="intro"></span><h1>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP that is intended to handle the
administration of a MySQL or MariaDB database server. You can use phpMyAdmin to
perform most administration tasks, including creating a database, running queries,
and adding user accounts.</p>
<div class="section" id="supported-features">
<h2>Supported features<a class="headerlink" href="#supported-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Currently phpMyAdmin can:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>create, browse, edit, and drop databases, tables, views, columns, and indexes</p></li>
<li><p>display multiple results sets through stored procedures or queries</p></li>
<li><p>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
indexes</p></li>
<li><p>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
configuration</p></li>
<li><p>execute, edit and bookmark any <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-SQL"><span class="xref std std-term">SQL</span></a>-statement, even batch-queries</p></li>
<li><p>load text files into tables</p></li>
<li><p>create <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#f1" id="id1">1</a> and read dumps of tables</p></li>
<li><p>export <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#f1" id="id2">1</a> data to various formats: <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-CSV"><span class="xref std std-term">CSV</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-XML"><span class="xref std std-term">XML</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-PDF"><span class="xref std std-term">PDF</span></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-ISO"><span class="xref std std-term">ISO</span></a>/<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-IEC"><span class="xref std std-term">IEC</span></a> 26300 - <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-OpenDocument"><span class="xref std std-term">OpenDocument</span></a> Text and Spreadsheet, Microsoft
Word 2000, and LATEX formats</p></li>
<li><p>import data and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-MySQL"><span class="xref std std-term">MySQL</span></a> structures from <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-OpenDocument"><span class="xref std std-term">OpenDocument</span></a> spreadsheets, as
well as <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-XML"><span class="xref std std-term">XML</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-CSV"><span class="xref std std-term">CSV</span></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-SQL"><span class="xref std std-term">SQL</span></a> files</p></li>
<li><p>administer multiple servers</p></li>
<li><p>add, edit, and remove MySQL user accounts and privileges</p></li>
<li><p>check referential integrity in MyISAM tables</p></li>
<li><p>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
connecting required tables</p></li>
<li><p>create <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-PDF"><span class="xref std std-term">PDF</span></a> graphics of your
database layout</p></li>
<li><p>search globally in a database or a subset of it</p></li>
<li><p>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link</p></li>
<li><p>track changes on databases, tables and views</p></li>
<li><p>support InnoDB tables and foreign keys</p></li>
<li><p>support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension see <a class="reference internal" href="faq.html#faq1-17"><span class="std std-ref">1.17 Which Database versions does phpMyAdmin support?</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>create, edit, call, export and drop stored procedures and functions</p></li>
<li><p>create, edit, export and drop events and triggers</p></li>
<li><p>communicate in <a class="reference external" href="https://www.phpmyadmin.net/translations/">80 different languages</a></p></li>
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<h2>Shortcut keys<a class="headerlink" href="#shortcut-keys" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Currently phpMyAdmin supports following shortcuts:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>k - Toggle console</p></li>
<li><p>h - Go to home page</p></li>
<li><p>s - Open settings</p></li>
<li><p>d + s - Go to database structure (Provided you are in database related page)</p></li>
<li><p>d + f - Search database (Provided you are in database related page)</p></li>
<li><p>t + s - Go to table structure (Provided you are in table related page)</p></li>
<li><p>t + f - Search table (Provided you are in table related page)</p></li>
<li><p>backspace - Takes you to older page.</p></li>
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<div class="section" id="a-word-about-users">
<h2>A word about users<a class="headerlink" href="#a-word-about-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Many people have difficulty understanding the concept of user
management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When a user logs in to
phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly to MySQL.
phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than allowing
one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users must
be valid MySQL users.</p>
<p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
<dl class="footnote brackets">
<dt class="label" id="f1"><span class="brackets">1</span><span class="fn-backref">(<a href="#id1">1</a>,<a href="#id2">2</a>)</span></dt>
<dd><p>phpMyAdmin can compress (<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-ZIP"><span class="xref std std-term">ZIP</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-GZip"><span class="xref std std-term">GZip</span></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-RFC-1952"><span class="xref std std-term">RFC 1952</span></a>
formats) dumps and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-CSV"><span class="xref std std-term">CSV</span></a> exports if you use PHP with
<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-Zlib"><span class="xref std std-term">Zlib</span></a> support (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--with-zlib</span></code>).
Proper support may also need changes in <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">php.ini</span></code>.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#shortcut-keys">Shortcut keys</a></li>
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